Education

M.L.A. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1979
University College London School of Environmental Studies 1975 1976
B.A. History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1974
Freshman, American College in Paris, France, 1971 1972

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Role / Experience

Brooks Kolb is a versatile landscape architect and designer with over 25 years experience in master planning and design for parks, university and corporate campuses, roof gardens, memorials and residential gardens. He currently oversees numerous large residential projects under construction in the Puget Sound region. His project management expertise; construction documents, detailing and field experience; illustrative drawing technique and one-on-one communication with residential clients enable him to fully realize his design intentions and ensure the client a well-built project. Brooks provides technical expertise for design teams and is an active partner in facilitating community workshop design efforts.

Brooks has worked on numerous public projects, including several projects with the University of Washington. He served as consultant to the Seattle Parks Department on the Lowman Beach Park Beach Restoration Project.

University of Washington University Community Urban Center Open Space Plan Project Manager, responsible for assisting with public workshops and for leading the neighborhood open space inventory as well as the graphic design and authorship of the final report (1997.)

University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories Master Plan, North Campus Plan and Southwest Campus Public Amenities Plan Project Manager, responsible for site inventory, mapping and analysis, urban design, illustration and rendering, publication design and co-authorship of the final reports as well as assistance at public workshops (1995 -1998.)

Lowman Beach Park Beach Restoration Project Manager/Project Designer for design services through construction, including participation at public workshops, design development, construction document and bid package preparation, review and response to Seattle Parks Department comments at each phase of the design and construction site observation (1994 1996.)

California Projects

Brooks served as Project Manager and Designer for a diverse array of projects in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1982 through 1994, including IBM Administrative Building 12 in San Jose, 44 Montgomery Roof Garden in San Francisco, the Berkeley Aquatic Park Master Plan and the Oakland Lake Merritt Park Master Plan. He was part of the California-based construction documents team for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington.

East Coast Projects

As a landscape designer with Hanna/Olin Ltd. (currently the Olin Partnership) from 1979 1981, Brooks served as a design assistant on a number of nationally significant projects, including the first phase of Battery Park City in New York City, Pitney Bowes Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, and the Sixteenth Street Transitway/Mall in Denver, Colorado.